The early chapters of "Theft: A Love Story" erupt with Carey's typical verbal resourcefulness and energy. Butcher's way with words raises the.
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And she sets in motion a chain of events that could be the making—or the ruin—of them all.
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Read reviews that mention carey art brother peter hugh artist brothers australian michael marlene butcher york painter boone writer bones painting paintings australia narrative. There was a problem filtering reviews right now. Please try again later. Peter Carey is a writer I respect a lot.
I think he has class and a real talent to put together great stories. Because he is so high in the ranks for me, I may be harsher with this review than with others - because "Theft" is a very good novel, showing true mastery of words, but it is not flawless.
The storyline itself is very simple; banal even, but although predictable, it is engrossing, in a sense: The whole point of the plot is revealed in the title, and the details at the very beginning, so there is no waiting for the climax. Therefore, no sleepless nights for this one The prose is very dense and not easy, characteristic for Carey, but I recommend patience because, all in all, this novel is worth reading. An intriguing woman, Marlene Leibovitz, appears once at the doorstep of the mansion, where an impoverished, forgotten painter, Michael Boone, is allowed to live with his not the smartest brother Hugh who not without reason earned himself the nickname "Slow Bones" in exchange for being a caretaker.
Both brothers fall in love with Marlene as she involves them in her giant theft scheme. Marlene needs Michael, because the object of the grand theft is a painting by her late father-in-law, an enormously famous painter The action moves in a brisk pace from Australia through Japan to New York City the latter being the only place, where Hugh does not get lost because of the grid and he loves it.
Reading "Theft" I could not avoid comparisons with "Oscar and Lucinda", the first of Carey's novels I read, which is amazing, in my opinion. The two fundamental differences are: There are also similarities: I feel that Carey likes the obsession motif, always very promising, and he gives it an interesting angle. The multi-level schemes, which also appear in both novels, cheating and cheating the cheaters, are fun too.
I found the ending despite not expecting much of it a bit of a disappointment, I felt that the idea somehow got diluted. I hated Marlene, her character was extremely irritating and obnoxious maybe this was intended; or maybe male readers would find her as charming as Michael Boone did. I loved the narration, I like when the novel is shown from different points of view complement each other.
But it is a good, original novel. Two-time Booker Prize winner Peter Carey has a command of the language that is beautiful in its simplicity. Just as three primary colors can make up the universe's sumptuous palette, so too does Carey's uncluttered prose create a world so detailed and rich that you might re-read some passages just to wonder how the man did it.
The words are there, naked and innocent, but Carey's talent is locked somewhere behind them. In "Theft," Carey tells the story of two brothers.
Michael Boone is an artist who has just been released from jail, where he was held for trying to steal his own art from his ex-wife. Hugh Boone is mentally-disabled, a looming child of a man who enjoys a good chair, a good chicken sandwich, and a children's book called "The Magic Pudding.
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Certainly Michael is a man in love with himself as much as with his art and at a loss to distinguish between the two. And there's a good chance he loves his brother, although there's not much evidence of that, other than his dogged often resentful dedication to the lumbering man-boy. Perhaps he loves Marlene. Marlene is an authenticator of paintings, specifically those by the late Jacques Liebovitz, one of Michael's profoundest influences. These shapes are a range of things, most of which will be instantly recognizable even though we see them as a whole for barely a second. As it is an animation there are a lot of shapes that are cartoon related, so Spiderman, Betty Boop, Gromit, Droopy and many others come and go, but we also have art references and sexual imagery.
This occurs on a loop although it does mix it up a lot and it is really satisfying to have all the moment come from the core; although the characters and shapes are bigger or smaller, it never seems to leave dead-centre of the screen and I found this really engaging and visually satisfying to have it seem to exist around a point. The music is quite heavy in bass and it worked very well with the images, seemed to change and repeat with them in a strong partnership. It is a very simple idea but it is clever and very well executed and worth seeing.
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